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When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic styleon exactly the same grounds as if it were prose,the poets tremble.- John C. Ransom

But we moderns are impatient and destructive.- John C. Ransom

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions?Its position is perfectly precarious.- John C. Ransom

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.- John C. Ransom

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances,until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible oflogic that plays havoc with the other faculties.- John C. Ransom

Now between the meanings of words and their soundsthere is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident;and it is therefore miraculous,to the mystic, when words which make sense can alsomake a uniform objective structure of accents and rhymes.- John C. Ransom

The man who goes alone can start today;but he who travels with anothermust wait till that other is ready.- Henry David Thoreau

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.- Benjamin Franklin

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.- Thomas Jefferson(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)

"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."- Lewis Carroll

A son is a son till he takes him a wife,a daughter is a daughter all of her life.- Irish Traditional

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,till death separate you.- William Penn

When you get into a tight placeand everything goes against you,till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer,never give up then, for that is justthe place and time the tide will turn.- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Never put off till tomorrowwhat you can do the day after tomorrow.- Mark Twain

It ain't over till it's over.- Yogi Berra

Do not save your loving speechesFor your friends till they are dead;Do not write them on their tombstones,Speak them rather now instead.- Anna Cummins

Make the most of your regrets;never smother your sorrow,but tend and cherish it till it comes to havea separate and integral interest.To regret deeply is to live afresh.- Henry David Thoreau

Call no man happy till he is dead.- Aeschylus

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.- Henry Ward Beecher

Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the familywaits till the rest of the family brings the car back.- Earl Wilson

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure,till you know there is no hook beneath it.- Thomas Jefferson